Improved apparatus for racking off wines, liquors



UNITED STATES ATENT EEICE.

DANIEL SEXTON, OF SAN GABRIEL, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR RACKING OFF WINES, LIQUORS, dic.

l Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,086, datedNovember 15, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL SEX'roN, of San Gabriel, in the county ot'Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Racking off Wines and Liquors; and I do hereby declarethat the follon in g is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,which will enable others skilled in the art to malte and use the saine,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of thisspecitication, said drawing representin g a vertical central section ofmy invention.

The object ot' this invention is to obtain a means ot' racking oft winesand liquors--that is to say, drawing them from one cask into another,and Without exposing them to the air and Without disturbing the sedimentin the caslr from which the wine or liquor is drawn.

A represents a cash containing the wine or liquor which is to be rackedor drawn ott', and B is a cask into which the Wine or liquor is to passfrom A, communication between the two casks being obtained by a tube, C,which may be constructed of an elastic material. rIhis tube may beconnected to the casks at any desired parts.

D is a pump constructed to operate on the principle ot' a bellows, thesides bein g ot' leather or other iiexible material, attached tocircular wooden plates or heads c at its upper and lower ends, andprovided with a wooden partition, b, at its center, having a hole, c,made centrally through it.

A valve, d, opening upward, is placed in the lower head et, and asimilar valve, d', is placed in the upper head (t, and a lever orhandle, E, is connected to the upper head a, the fulcrum c of said leverbeing in a standard, F, attached to a basepla-te, G, to which the lowerhead a is attached.

In the lower head a and plate G there is secured a tube, H, of taper orconical form, designed to be iitted in the bunghole of the cask B, intowhich the liquor is t0 be drawn.

From the above description it Will be seen that by working the lever orhandle E up and down the pump I) will be expanded and contracted,exhausting the air from B as it expands, and having said air ejectedfrom it as it contracts. As the air is exhausted from B the liquor Williiow from A into B, a vent being allowed the cash A.

The pump D, in consequence of being constructed, as shown and described,without metal, cannot get out of Working order by corroding, acontingency attending the use of metal pumps owing to the acidity ot'many kinds of liquors-for instance, such as acid wines.

2y this arrangement the liquor may be racked oft' without disturbing thesediment contained within the Cask from which it is drawn, and the caskinto which the liquor is forced by the pressure of the atmosphere may behigher than the one from which it is drawn, it not being at allessential as regards the relative position of the two casks. The airalso is prevented from coming in contact with the liquor, which in manycases is extremely injurious to the latter.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent` tacking ott'wines and other liquors by means 0t` an air-pump constructed on theprinciple ot' or similar to a bellows, and of wood and leather or otherflexible material, applied in the manner substantially as and for thepurpose herein set forth.

DANI EL SEXTUN.

XVitnesses (l. C. TWICHELL, E. M. J oNEs.

